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[Poll #1288113]

Comments

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

ah, but a penis's reach should exceed its grasp!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

*groan*
*thwap*

:-)

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad those were boxes instead of radio buttons.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Radio buttons are evil.

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

They have their uses now and again.

I'd go prove it, but I'm not a paid user. I did not expect polls to be a temptation, or lots-o-icons either, but dammit I keep wanting to poll people, and I have one more usericon than I have space for... they'll get me yet.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

not to mention having your own comments emailed to you!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Why would a person want that? (Not saying a person shouldn't, it's just not immediately apparent to me why that would be useful.)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Archiving, I imagine.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Yes, but why?

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

I have in my possession every email and every livejournal comment I've received since 1995, and I have them all stored by individual person. Going back and looking through the folder is a sometimes useful and always really interesting record of my history with a person.

-J

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Canola oil!

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Hee hee hee! Actually, I don't have all that--I only save stuff that's sent to me personally, or conversations that I was personally involved in. I do have a bunch of other fun old stuff from wombat, though!

-J

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

because some people make horrid comments and then delete them.

it also makes it easier for me to track comment spam (which goes to really old posts) and generally keeps me on top of comments people make to comments I've made.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

my email has a great search function; nice for digging up old, half-remembered threads

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

Here's a recent example -- you had posted last month about some Jonathan Coulton shows in San Francisco in January, and I had posted two comments. So last week when I found out he would be performing there in November as well, and wanted to post another comment, it was easy for me to find the URL of your posting by searching my LiveJournal mail folder for Coulton.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I see. Thanks!

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

I need a ticky box for "it depends"

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Nope, that will skew the data. Conform, damn you, conform!!!

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

In your dreams.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't exactly say that's what you do in my dreams, but hey, potayto/potahto.

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I was thinking of that when I put up the last comment.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Yes, dear. I'm nothing if not attentive to my friends' straight-line needs, as it were. :-)

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

"I take a look at my prehensile penis..." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phthxXtnFFg&feature=related)

[johno.livejournal.com]

Ever since Babylon 5, where Londo was cheating at cards using his...

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Nope, don't like that idea at all. Now if people came with a prehensile *tail*, that I'd like :)

[pure-agnostic.livejournal.com]

Ah, but penis means tail in latin!
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/penis

And think of all the wiggly tricks you could with a prehensile penis ... um ... tail!

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Exactly.. *shudder*

[dr-brat.livejournal.com]

It let me tick both boxes, so your data's skewed. nah, nah!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

No, no, not at all. "Both" is a perfectly fine answer in this case, because I can tell who clicked which. :-)

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

The first section needs an "Other" checkbox as well, I think!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

No, that would mess up my survey. It's deliberately set up this way. If you have neither opinion, better to just not vote. :-)

[minimo.livejournal.com]

My space alien lover has one of those! And I think he's going to beam me up RIGHT NOW!

i don't get it

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i wonder what people find so icky about a prehensile penis. fingers are prehensile -- are they gross too?

Re: i don't get it

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

1. Fingers aren't individually prehensile; a single prehensile appendage is more like a tentacle, and tentacles are pretty alien to folks with internal skeletons, therefore more likely to be creepy.
2. If the owner of a prehensile penis is going to be doing anything tool-using with it, that seems likely to put said owner in a position that is at least somewhat uncomfortable and rather prone to unfortunate accidents.
3. Also it means the penis-owner will have been touching things with his penis, which is kind of gross. Dolphins are sweet and fun and all, but I wouldn't want one washing my dishes.